write their name, student number, and class. To make the students enjoy writing their test, I emphasized that the test would not affect their school grade. Finally, I
asked them to write their writing in 45 minutes and they could consult their writing in dictionary to find difficult words, but they were not allowed to discuss
the test with their friends. After the time was over, I asked the students to submit their work in front of
the class. Then, after all of the students submitted their work, I told them that we still had two meetings left. Finally, I closed the meeting by giving advice to the
students to keep learning writing the English text.
4.2.3. Result Analysis of the Post Test I
The Cycle I was conducted in 2 times, on April, 23
rd
and 24
th
2010. At the end of the first cycle, I gave the students posttest I or formative test. For the formative
test, I gave the topic about Snow White and the questions to guide the students when they were writing narrative text. The test was done to know the progression
of the students’ skill in writing narrative text. Therefore, I could decide whether I had to give another treatment or not. To know the improvement of the students’
achievement, I compared the average score of pretest and formative test. In analyzing the result of the formative test, I also used Brown scoring
system in the “Language Assessment, Principle and Classroom Practice” book. There are five aspects according to this book that I had to score; the organization,
content, grammar, punctuation and the style of their language use. Every aspect is divided into five categories that are excellent to good, good to adequate, adequate
to fair, unacceptable, and not college-level work.
From the result of students’ writing, there were one student got 54, one student got 63, two students got 64, one student got 65, one student got 66, six
students got 68, five students got 69, six students got 70, seven students got 71,
two students got 73, and one student got 74.
Furthermore, I calculated the students’ score to know the average of the students’ achievement that would be compared with the result of the pretest and
posttest II in order to know the progression of the students’ achievement. The average of the students’ achievement in doing formative test was calculated by
using the formula below: The average of the students’ result =
= 2266 33
= 68.66 From the calculation above, we could see that the of students’ score was
68.66. Based on the model of analytic scale for rating composition tasks as stated by Brown 2004: 244-245, we can conclude that that students’ achievement in
doing formative test was still not good enough. The result of the formative test is presented in appendix 8 page 88.
From the result of formative test, I found that there was an improvement of the students’ achievement after they were given treatment. It could be seen from
the comparison of the two tests, pre test and formative test. For the pre test, the average of students’ score was 59.96, while for the formative test; the average of
students’ score was 68.66, so the difference of both score was 8.7.
However, to my analysis of the activity in the first cycle and from the result of formative test, there were still many mistakes done by the students. The
mistakes made were still about grammar, vocabularies, spelling, punctuation, and organization of the text. The mistakes made in grammar such as the use of present
verb in Simple Past Tense, misused of possessive pronoun, the use of the word “not” for negative verb, miss order structure and so on, for instance, “The queen
orders the hunter”, “Snow White beautiful and The Queen beautiful too”, “His beauty made the Queen jealous.” While, the mistakes made in organization were
the incomplete ideas in the paragraph. Thus, we could conclude that I had to give a treatment to the students to improve their writing skill, especially in grammar
and practicing writing narrative text.
4.3. Description of Cycle II
The second cycle was conducted two times, on April, 30
th
and May, 1
st
2010. Based on the result analysis of formative test in the first cycle, I found that the
result had not reached the target of achievement yet. Therefore, I had to continue the activity to the second cycle to improve the students’ writing skill by giving
more treatment to the students. In this activity, I tried to improve the shortage found in cycle I. However, I focused on the giving materials about tenses and
practice writing narrative.
